Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
ball clicked hoped swinging
So far, we haven't come out swinging like we hoped we would. We just haven't clicked on the ball offensively yet enough to win games.
good player popular
Omar was probably the most well-respected, popular player they've had here, but Peralta has done a very good job.
longer send sit
Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.
send time
Most of the time you send Rad back out there. But this isn't most of the time any more.
brad send time whatever win
Most of the time you send Brad back out there, but this isn't most of the time. We're going to try to do whatever we have to do to win games.
send
Most of the time, you'd send (Radke) back out there, but this isn't 'most of the time' anymore.
guys numbers
I'm a little biased, but I think he's the best. There's other guys that have better numbers à but to me, it doesn't get much better than Johan in this league. Not much better than him.
almost buck deal guys heart locked march mph notorious people pitchers sees spring throwing until
If Buck sees him throwing 84 mph on March 6, he's going to have a heart attack. It's an issue, but people have to deal with it. There are going to be pitchers who are notorious for not getting going until right at the end of spring training. Guys aren't going to be locked and loaded; that's almost a guarantee.
wanting
I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.
mess next ready sure tonight year
We need to make sure we're ready for next year for him. We don't want to mess with that thing. He's pitched on it long enough, and tonight he kind of tweaked it again.
effort looked until
We made an effort there at the end. Up until that, it looked ugly.
against baseball contending four good stand standing teams tough
We made a good stand here against some very good baseball teams. We're .500 against four teams that are all going to be contending for the playoffs. We're standing at .500 here after a tough start, and we've really battled back to get to .500. And you know what, that's not bad.
cleaned looking mess
We're looking at the possibility of getting this thing cleaned up. He's pitched on it long enough. We're not going to mess it up and take a chance.
ball
We're just going to give him the ball like we always have.